Saturday, 13 August 2022

100 years of political images

The story of the political history of Chorlton over the last 100 years has yet to be written. In the meantime here are three images from the last century of local political campaigns.


In 1904 Harry Kemp along with the other two Progressive candidates issued their election address for the first local election since Chorlton joined the city of Manchester.


Just over 70 years later Tony Walker photographed the sign outside the Conservative Party Offices when Chorlton returned three Tory councillors.












And in 1986 the Labour Party issued the first of a number of leaflets during their campaign which saw the election of the first Labour councillor.

Location; Chorlton

Pictures; from the collection of Tony Walker and Andrew Simpson

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